Azkaban started out as the lair of evil wizard Ekrizdis before becoming a magical prison in the Harry Potter franchise.

Azkaban was built by the dark wizard Ekrizdis to perform experiments with dark magic. The Ministry of Magic turned Azkaban into the main prison for wizards, fearful of angering the Dementor colony ...

Azkaban Prison is a place that everyone dreads going. This is where the most dangerous wizards are kept to serve a lifelong sentence. It is also one of the many locations that you can visit in ...

Azkaban’s Muggle equivalent boasts an even larger number of attempted breakouts, although the success rate for inmates was far lower (according to prison records, zero — although scholars of ...

To be 13 is not a happy thing. Those of us who aren't can still recall the restlessness, the awkwardness, the loneliness -- and the paranoiac's conviction that forces of evil (grown-ups, in any ...

Unlike other film series, “Harry Potter” just gets better. The hugely popular Warner Bros. movies of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling fantasies have become darker, richer and funnier over a ...

As Harry Potter hits adolescence, the boy wizard gets a new director (Y Tu Mama Tambien's Alfonso Cuaron), a new depth, and a new darkness.

Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban book covers are packed with Easter eggs ...

Potter's real problem, though, is the Prisoner of Azkaban -- commonly known as Sirius Black -- an allegedly dark and twisted wizard who has escaped from the infamous prison with one goal: to kill ...

Along the way, Harry will go up against a frightening group of creatures known as the Dementors, who also happen to serve as the guards for Azkaban prison and are on their own search for Sirius Black.

Azkaban’s world is a less polished one than that which Columbus presented to us, ... has escaped from Azkaban prison and blames Harry personally for the destruction of the dark lord whom he served.